Boxley, crucifix at, expofed, 264 Bristol made a bishopric, 265
Bruce, Robert, claims the Scottish throne, 14; acknow- ledges Edward's fuperiority, 15; his claim difimiffed, 16; fubmits to Edward, ib. fecretly favours Wallace, 27; refigns the pleafing hopes of delivering Scotland to his fon, 33
Robert the younger, refolves to free his country from the English yoke, ib makes his escape from Eng- land, ib. Stabs Cummin, 34; Expels the English for- ces, ib. crowned at Scone, ib. defeated by Aymer de Valence, 35, Flies to the Western islands, ib. his fifter fhut up in a wooden cage, ib. defeats Aymer de Valence, 39; gains a great victory at Banockburn, 45; kills Henry de Bohun, ib.
, David, invades England, 77; defeated, and taken prifoner, 78
Buchan, countefs of, fhut up in a wooden cage, 35 Burdet, Thomas, executed for a trifling exclamation, 77
Burgundy, duke of, affaffinates the duke of Orleans, 135; is himself affaffinated by the dauphin of France, ib.
the duke of, joins with Henry V. to young 9 revenge the death of his father, 135; continues his engagements with the duke of Bedford, 142; breaks his treaty with the English, 149; several of his subjects murdered, 150
Burley, Sir Simon, condemned and executed, 98
CABOT, Sebaftian, discovers the Northern parts of America, 225
Cade, John, account of, 156; heads a rebellion in Kent, 157; his demands, ib. cuts to pieces a detachment of the royal army, ib. enters London, ib. puts lord Say, the treasurer, to death, ib. is abandoned by his follow- ers, 158; flies into the Woods of Kent, ib. Slain by Alexander Eden, ib.
Caen, taken and plundered by the English, 69 Calais, famous fiege of, 74; made a mart for wool, &c. 76
Catharine, princefs, married to Henry V 136
of Spain, married to Arthur prince of Wales, 222; married to Henry prince of Wales, ib. cited be- fore the ecclefiaftical court, 251; her pathetic intreaties to the king, 252; refufes to appear before the court, 257; retires to Ampthill, 258
Chalons, count of, foiled by Edward, 6; his ungenerous behaviour, ib.
Charles the wife, afcends the throne of France, 85; leads an army of Banditti into Castile against Peter the cruel, ib.
dauphin of France, affaffinates the duke of Or- leans, 135; gains an advantage over the English, 137; is driven beyond the Loire, 138; his deplorable fituati- on, 141; defeated at Vernueil, 142; affifted by Joan of Arc, 143; crowned at Rheims, 146; becomes very fuccefsful, ib. applies himself to cultivate the arts of peace, 150; invades Normandy, 151; drives the Eng- lish out of France, ib.
Chefter made a bishopric, 265
Chivalry, its advantages in England, 88
Clarence, duke of, defeated, 137; drowned in a butt of Malmfey, 177
Cleves, Anne of, contracted to Henry VIII. 278; her marriage celebrated, 279
Clifford, Sir Robert, joins Warbeck, 208; gained over by Henry, 209; accufes Sir William Stanley,
Cobham, lord. See Oldcastle, Sir John. Combat, fingle, ceremonies of, 102 Commons, origin of the houfe of, 22 Companions, who, 85
Cranmer, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, fome ac count of, 253; fupports the protestant tenets, 259; intercedes ineffectually for Anne Boleyn, 268; informs Henry of Catharine Howard's incontinence, 283; the _council
council ordered to inquire into his conduct, 287; reftored to favour, 288; attends Henry VIII. in his last moments, 294
Creffingham, his avaricious conduct, 26; perfuades Warrenne to attack Wallace, 27; is flain in battle, 28
Cromwell, Thomas, account of, 259; favours the reformation, ib. placed at the head of a commiffion for infpecting the monafteries, 262; negotiates a marriage for Henry with Anne of Cleves, 279; his great preferments, 280; condemned for high-treason, ib. his execution, 281
Cummin of Badenoch, opposes Wallace, 29; made regent of Scotland, 30; feconds the interefts of Bruce, 33; betrays the fecret, 34; ftabbed by Bruce, ib. killed before the altar, ib.
DAVID, brother of Lewellyn, prince of North Wales, takes Sir George Clifford prifoner, 11; is obliged to fly to the mountains, 12; is executed as a traitor,
Denny, Sir Anthony, informs Henry VIII. of his approaching end, 294
Defpencer, Hugh, becomes the favourite of Edward II. 47; marries the king's niece, ib. fentenced to exile by the parliament, 48; his pride and rapacity, 49; put to an ignominious death, 52
Douglas, Sir William, joins Wallace, 27; fubmits to the English, ib.
Archibald, attempts to feize Edward III. 57; defeats Edward Baliol, 61; flain in battle, ib.
Dudley, one of Henry's minifters, 221; account of, ib. examined before the council, 227; condemned and executed, 228
EDEN, Alexander, kills John Cade, 158; made go-
vernor of Dover castle, ib.
Edward I. engaged in the holy wars, 3; arrives at the city of Acon in Palestine, ib. relieves that place, ib. obtains many victories, ib. is in danger of being mur- dered, 4; receives a wound in his arm with a poifoned dagger, ib. Wrefts the weapon from the hands of the afsassin, and stabs him, ib. his life in danger, 5; makes his will, ib. is cured by an English furgeon, ib. his recovery ascribed to the piety of his wife Eleanor, ib. concludes a truce with the foldan of Babylon, ib. fets fail for Sicily, ib. arrives fafely at that place, where he first hears the news of his father's death, ib. is greatly afflicted at his lofs, ib. his anfwer to the king of Sicily, who expreffes great furprize at his grief, ib. paffes over to France, 6; receives great honours there, ib. gives proofs of his bravery at a tournament, ib. comes off victorious, ib. does homage to Philip king of France, ib. fets out for Gafcony, ib. England, 7; is crowned king of England at Weftmin- fter, ib. his great popularity, ib. receives homage of the king of Scotland and other princes, ib. is esteemed by all ranks of people, ib. his prudent conduct, ib. corrects the abufes which had crept in during his father's reign, 8; redreffes all grievances, ib. his pre- judice to the Jews, ib. exercifes great severity against that people, ib. refolves to march against Lewellyn, prince of North Wales, ib. levies an army against that prince, and marches into Wales, 9; penetrates into Lewellyn's retreat, ib. reduces him to the greatest diftrefs, 10; obliges that unfortunate prince to fubmit, ib. impofes hard terms of accommodation on Lewel- lyn, ib. goes again to war with Lewellyn, 11; affem- bles a confiderable force, and marches into Wales, ib. part of his army defeated by the Welch, ib. ob- tains a complete victory over them, 12; orders the
Welch bards to be maffacred, 13; leaves his queen, who was pregnant, to be delivered in the caitle of Caernarvon, ib. prefents the child, Edward, to the Welch lords as their appointed prince, ib. unites the government of Wales to that of England, ib. is made arbitrator in the difpute concerning the Scottish throne, 14; his artful conduct in that affair, ib. lays claim to the crown of Scotland, and advances to the fron- tiers of that kingdom with a formidable army, ib. convenes the Scotch parliament to meet him in the castle of Norham, ib. produces the proofs of his fu- perior claim to the throne of Scotland, ib. his fuperi- ority acknowledged by the Scotch barons, 15; puts John Baliol in poffeffion of the kingdom of Scotland, 16; his arbitrary proceedings with regard to the king of Scotland, ib. fummonfes that prince to appear be- fore him at Westminster, ib. requires Baliol to per- form the duty of a vaffal, 17; orders him to appear be- fore the parliament at Newcastle, ib. his commands difregarded by Baliol, ib. marches with a confidera. ble army into the kingdom of Scotland, ib. receives the fubmiffion of Robert de Bruce and his fon, ib. takes Berwick by affault, ib. makes the governor pri- foner, and puts the garrifon to the fword, ib. lays fiege to Dunbar, ib. obliges that caftle to furrender, and obtains a complete victory, 18; reduces the whole fouthern of the parts ib. reinforces his army country, in order to fubdue the northern parts, ib. receives the fubmiffion of Baliol, who refigns his crown, ib. re- duces the whole Scottish nation to obedience, ib. de- ftroys all their records and monuments of antiquity, 19; deprives them of that ancient ftone called Jacob's pillar, ib. breaks the great feal of Baliol, and fends that unhappy prince prifoner to London, ib. makes preparations for a war with France, 20; orders his territory of Guienne to be put in a pofture of defence, ib. forms a treaty with feveral neighbouring princes, ib. collects an army from the goals, ib. his army repulfed by Charles, brother to the king of France, ib. his attempts upon France defeated, ib. forms
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